Neville Cobb wrote: > I wanted to puraches some books on line and the particular site said > that it uses SSL to encrypt pades and that anything sent back would be > encrypted. However The security lock on mozulla did not turn yellow (nor > was it highlighted in MS Explorer either). > > Can this be true in that you can have encrypted pages be sent back to > companies without the mozilla lock being activated. At the moment I've > no confidence in the site and that my data is safe. Are there other ways > of checking that it is secure or should the mozilla lock be highlighted > in all cases in order to provide some level of confidence?
Look at the URL. If it begins with "https://";, it uses encryption. If it begins with "http://";, it doesn't. -- /Jonas
